Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard and Arm Loop - Circa 1885 Japanese Ordnance was at Fort Richardson

was at Fort Richardson

In March 1945 the Department for Marine Rifle Regiment was 161 reclassified

we have only a few un-issued copies available

and the scabbard fittings are non-magnetic

with this production run finishing in 1910

Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard and Arm Loop - Circa 1885 Japanese Ordnance was at Fort RichardsonOriginal item. Only One Available. The loss of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885 was a great blow to British prestige and yet it took thirteen years for Great Britain to extract revenge at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. The religious leader, the Mahdi, "the chosen or expected one" had died shortly after the Gordon episode and the Caliphate was now led by the infamous and exceptional brutal Khalifa, "the successor". These tribal natives of the Sudan